I have this script that polls a bunch of Linux boxes. Basically is is a keyed, no-pass login that runs a single command on a list of servers. One of the servers we're having sporadic timeout issues ...

So here's the situation. We've got Apache 2 running on FreeBSD. We need to run a script on one of the other machines, so we wrote a little perl script that uses Net::SSH to login and run it, and then ...